The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-24
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hands with the President declares that he will
never wash his hands again.
THE venerable Simon Cameron takes great
pride in his cattle. His pres snt particular pet
| is steer that girths over eight feet and weighs
2,100 pounds.
MAN was instantly killed near Lowell, Mass,
recently, while walking railroad track upon
returning irons cemetery, where he had gone
to arrange for his wife'S funeral.
COUNTERFEIT POSTAL CARDS have been discov-
cred in Pittsburg which are so skilfully executed
that their detection is very difficult This is the
first attempt to put spurious postal cards in cir
| culation.
| AT Lexington, Miss, the men have no chance
with the women Miss Dixie Cole is the express
agent, NJ IS Emily Wright is the postmistress,
| and Miss Mollie Hoskins has charge of the tele-
| graph Office.
FIVE SILVER DIMES were recently sent the
Reading Qiich) Telephone on a postal card
The pieces were placed in looped slips cut into
| the card and held there by a thread which
crossed the loops.
A. P. Foss saw live chicken floating and
struggling in the canal at Suncook, N. H., and
pulled it out. Attached to its leg was pickerel
weighing over two pounds, which had grabbed
| the chicken S leg in such way that it could not
let go.
On HIS WHALING CRUISE just ended Capt
Bauldry, of the steam whaler Orea, San Fran
| cisco, killed thirty-five whales, slowed twenty
| eight (all he had room for) and brought into
port $500 barrels of oil and $4,000 pounds of
| bone-the largest catch on record, and valued
| at about 1866. $50.
JOHN HAULsToN, Waterman at Shropshire
iron works, near Wellington, lost his life while
going his rounds carrying lighted torch. Pass
ing tank of oil. he trpped and fell into it. The
torch ignited the oil and he in lake of fire
He died shortly after being rescued. The build
ing was destroyed
| PAPER BEDCLoTHEs are made at factory in
New Jersey. They are doubled sheets of manila
paper, strengthened with Irvine, and valuable
by reason of the peculiar properties of paper as
| a non-conductor of heat. They have a warmth
preserving power far out of proportion to their
| thickness and weight.
AN old Roman fireplace, with the ashes and
chimney well preserved, was unearthed at the
market place. Mayence, recently. The pipes
were earthenware, and fitted exactly into one
another. monumental stone bearing the in
| scription, LEG XIII, G. Z. NJ found close
by, was nearly p inches long by nearly IL inches
broad
| AT a church entertainment in Washington
recently, boxes of luncheon were sold to the
young men, and in each box was the card of
| some young woman who was present. The pur-
chasers were supposed not to know what names
| were in the boxes they bought, and each was
expected to share his luncheon with the girl
whose name he found in the box.
| TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION will shortly be-
gin between Russia and France. All dispatches
at present come through Germany, and have
| recently been tempered with at Berlin. Russia,
| in the of war between Germany and
Austria, would be entirely cut off from tele
graphic communication with the remainder of
| Europe.
PROF MAX MULLER has been requested by his
highness the Maharajah of Vizianagram to
publish new edition of the sacred book of the
| Brahmans, the Rig Veda, with the commentary
| of Sayanacharya. The Mabaraiah will bear the
| whole expense, and the book is to be printed at
Oxford University Press. The first edition has
been out of print for some time. 1t consisted
| OF six quarto volumes
JAMES ROBINSON created a sensation at the
railroad station in Erie, Pa, on Friday, by
| experimenting the removal of his aged and in
valid mother to the poorhouse. In spite of her
plteous enteatleS to be spared the humiliation
of being cast into the pauper's den, and the
| curses of the men who stood around, he ha his
| mother loaded on the ambulance and taken to
| the poorhouse.
ANTWERP promises in the future to be again
a great art centre. 1t has to-day one of the
| finest art schools in Europe. The town is so
quiet and so clean and so heatbful that students
would certainly be able to do more work here
| than in the crowded quarters of Paris. The
| modern Belgian artists think are better than
the modern Frenchmen They have equal skill
apd technique and put more ideas and brains
into their pictures.
SOME highly respected citizens of st Cloud,
Mimi, in 1858, annoyed by the sarcastic and Bit
ter sayings published in Mrs. Jane Grey Swiss
holm's St Cloud Visitor revenged themselves
by throwing all her type into the river. Re-
| Gently the ancient printing material was found
near the mouth of a canal Mrs Swissholm
died last year. and it is suggested as an ap-
| propriate thing to mould the type into some
suitable emblem and place it at her grave.
| PHILADELPHIA MERCHANTS who employ
large number of young ladies in their stores
have begun to realize that it pays to study their
comforts and interests. In one large dry goods
house there is a relief fund.- to which all fines,
etc, are paid over. while the young ladies enjoy
| the privilege of a completely furnished and
| comfortably fitted room for meals, etc, with
| coffee furnished by the firm to supplement the
| meals brought from home. The system in
| augurated in London houses twenty years ago
| and has been found to work admirably.
| some of the animals of Japan are quite diff
| ferent from the same species which are seen in
America The cats for instance have the short
| est kinds of tails or else none at ALL Being de-
prved of this usual plaything, they are very SOL
| emn pussies. An American once took one of
| these taess cats TO San Francisco as a curios
| ity. and it utterly refused companionship with
| the long tailed feline specimens there; but find
| ing cat whose tail had been cut off by acct
| dent. the two became friendly at once. Japan
|
the nostrilS set directly in the head The smaller
the nose the more valuable the breed.
EVEN San Francisco stopped to look at a cow
boy who proudly walked its streets the other
day. The Argonaut says that he was fully
feet inches in height, broad shouldered
| bronZed, and wore small black moustacbe
| while two large gray eyes seemed to take in ali
the admiring glances shot al him by the crowd
of well dressed ladies who passed by He wore
a paire of Wellington boots, into which were
| thrust the legs of pair of tight-ftting gray
| pantaloons, mauve -colored wooden shirt dis
| played several diamonds in the front and a blue
| silk tie enclrcled his throat. On his head was
stiff white hat, with brim fully IL inches
| broad.
| The STORY comes from Milton, Mass that
widow there who owned beautiful house leased
1t to Boston woman, to be used as a summer
boarding house. Guests arrived and the season
opened prosperously, but soon 1t was whispered
that the house was haunted. The servants be-
came demoralized, the guests became III EASY.
and the landlady herself saw white and misty
form fitting through the halls She was about
TO give up the lease when the owner arrived and
said that she wanted to see the ghost, too. She
watched for it, and sure enough it appeared:
but the watcher, instead of fleeing in terror
tackled the sheeted form and disclosed a neigh.
Dor who had vainly tried TO buy the property.
and took this way to bring the house into disre
pute and also into the market.
FREDERICK THE GREAT had sound ideas on the
forestry question, Judging from this nroclan,o